T530 Ultrabay HDD performance

Hi,
How fast should a hard drive be in the ultrabay? I feel like it should be much faster than what I'm experiencing.
The following metrics were measured with HD Tune on an otherwise idle computer.
HD Tune: TOSHIBA MK5061GSY Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 26.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 98.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 74.3 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.7 ms
Burst Rate : 67.9 MB/sec
CPU Usage : -1.0%
Thanks!

the Ultrabay in the ThinkPad T420/s, T520, T430/s, T530, W520 and W530 have SATAIII 6 gbps connection. So it is the same connection speed as the main hdd.
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Jin Li
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After trying every possible "solutions" with no luck for the problem of the second hard drive always ejecting/disconnecting when waking from sleep in my T530, I've decided to create my own workaround.
This is by no means a definitive solution but a nice workaround that uses little resources on the machine.
The idea is to simply let a program runs constantly from the second hard drive. That way, when the HDD tries to disconnect, Windows is not allowing it and then it stays allways connected.
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Hmm, I have no problem with Ultrabay ejecting HDD when waking from sleep mode. At first, I went down the same
route as you did. For the first few days when I received my T530 I kept an .iso file from Ultrabay HDD always mounted.
But then I disabled all power saving options within Windows and Lenovo Power Manager and it seems to work fine.
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How to hold the HDD more secure in Ultrabay HDD Adapter

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One of the things I like most about my ThinkPad is the Ultrabay. The Ultrabay is by default occupied by the optical drive, but the optical drive can be removed and replaced with a hard drive adapter, a battery, or a serial/parallel port adapter. But the question seems alway exist, since ultrabay hdd adapter is fit to more than one models. When I insert the ultrabay adapter in my R400, i found that there is some space between the ultrabay and the computer. This is annoying because you have to worry about the dust. But the most serious problem is, the ultrabay HDD adapter could not hold the HDD securely!! Like the photo i show above, the adapter and the HDD is only connected and hold by the junction!So if you subject the adapter to a lot of movement, the drive connector can easily get damaged. Is there any solution to help?
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they are the same, and can be used interchangeably.
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they are the same, and can be used interchangeably.
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I just had a look on a t530 in a store here in Germany, and i grabbed myself one of the customer care emplyees to ask a couple of questions. So one of the answers i got confuzzled me. The customer guy was telling me that i would NOT bwe possible to exchange the Ultrabay DVD drive with an Ultrabay adapter which is holding the internat HDD of the T530. In other words: It is Not posible to exchange the HDD with an SDD and to put the HDD into the Ultrabay slot. The reason for that would be, thats what the customer guy said, that is is not written in the specifications of the machine.
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ich war letztens bei Saturn, weil ich grade in der Stadt war, um mir mal ein ThinkPad von nahem anzusehen. Und da in der Filiale grade ein T530 rumstand habe ich mir einen Verkäufer geschnappt, um ihm ein paar Fragen zu stellen.
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